Waldkindergarten

My next stop was in Neumuenster, where I went out for a meal with Norbert Biss from the local BUND (Friends of the Earth) group, and talked about his job teaching in a waldkindergarten (a school in the forest for children aged 3 to 6). There are now hundreds of these in Germany.

The children spend all day out in the open in the woods unless the weather is really bad, learning an emotional connection with the environment by direct sensory experience, so different from the scientific way in which environmental studies is taught. We need to reach children in this way if they are to value the environment